A friend of mine still has her clothes that were bought five years back. She's not ready to put them away. Its just kept in her closet and is looked at once a while when she feels like. Another friend of mine has kept few chocolate wrappers for more than eight years.
People keep movie tickets, paper cups, posters, pens and so many other things as it reminds them of someone or something special in their life. But I still have the sim card of my old phone number. Spice connection, which is now called Idea. I prefer Spice and still call it that. Its a pre-paid connection which I've not used for past five years. Don't think anyone other than my family and few very close friends have this phone number of mine. Yet i can't throw it away. No emotional attachment to it yet can't throw it. While buying a new phone, let go of the one i liked 'cos it was a single sim phone. Bought a dual sim one just to keep both sims.
Have thought about this and can't think of any reason for my action. It freaks me out.
My question : Is it just the emotional attachment that make us keep things like phones, movie tickets and stuff? If its not attachment, What is it?
People keep movie tickets, paper cups, posters, pens and so many other things as it reminds them of someone or something special in their life. But I still have the sim card of my old phone number. Spice connection, which is now called Idea. I prefer Spice and still call it that. Its a pre-paid connection which I've not used for past five years. Don't think anyone other than my family and few very close friends have this phone number of mine. Yet i can't throw it away. No emotional attachment to it yet can't throw it. While buying a new phone, let go of the one i liked 'cos it was a single sim phone. Bought a dual sim one just to keep both sims.
Have thought about this and can't think of any reason for my action. It freaks me out.
My wife has a huge bunch of old and outdated academic books. Almost all the books are useless now and infect she never touched any of them since ages.Not only books,she also keep her old copies. I argued so many times with her to dump those things. Now a days i don't say anything. I am really confused "is this emotional attachment or something else?" :)
ReplyDeleteHa ha..:-) I know so many others jus like your wife who wouldn't dump books.. Its the same with me.. Still have so many academic books though have no space at home to keep them.. :-)
DeleteI guess it's the memories that are attached to it? A movie ticket can remind us of a joyous time we spent with our friends. A phone sim can, similarly, recall memories from the times when we used it. Right?
ReplyDeleteTrue.. movie tickets have a good memory attached.. :-) but my SIM card has no good memory attached.. yet I keep it..:-( god knows why..
Deletei keep movie tickets,n clothes..u knw i hv kept 10 years old clothes in my closet ..even if i dnt wear ..i see them once in a while as they remind of many old memories from nasik..strange but even i cnt figure out wht is it..
ReplyDeleteOh wow.. :-) you must be missing Nashik a lot..
Deleteyeah miss nashik,my frds a lot ..i hv spent d best time of my life there ..:)
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